Art and artists

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Abraham Lincoln Prints from the Christmas season, (5) from original artwork for Lincoln Memorial University by Lloyd Ostendorf.

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Andy Hurst; Files on Knoxville area Artists. Compiled while he was working on art and frame restoration projects for works by these artists. Also includes some information on works that he did conservation work on.

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Ephemera of the September 6, 2012 presentation of two paintings by Barry Spann to the Howard H. Baker Jr. United States Courthouse. Includes invitation to the event, information sheet on the paintings, nomination for East Tennessee Historical Society 2011 Award of Excellence (for the research of the background of the artwork in the Courthouse), and photos of the Barry Spann artwork in the Courthouse.

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Box 1: Correspondence, 1958-1971, 1988 + drawings & text re: numbers in French. 6 folders. + copies of scans of the material. Box 2: 23 used paintbrushes and pencils. Note from relative that they were in a French pitcher from PP? Believed to have belonged to and been used by artist Beauford Delaney.

Scope and Contents Includes a small collection of manuscripts and photographs; works on paper: ink drawings and pastels; hand-made greeting cards; personal scrapbook of clippings created by the artist; Medals from the Appalachian Exposition; publications and catalogs related to the artist, including University of Tennessee Volunteer yearbooks for the years Catherine was assisting with the artwork for the publication, 1907, 1910, 1914,1917 Catherine’s palette. The artist’s easel and folding chair (ca. 1910) are...

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September 26, 1929, letter from [important Nashville woman artist] E[lla] S[ophonisba] Hergesheimer, Reading, Penn., to Mrs. [C. J.] McClung. ALS 2 pp. (1 pc.). Re: details and price of painting a portrait of Matthew McClung from a miniature.

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Photocopy of a pencil sketch of the "Edgar Lonas" Bailey Store in Strawberry Plains, Tenn. Signed Doug Griffith. Includes 4.25" x 5.25" black and white photograph of building.

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Group portrait at Opening for exhibit featuring Tennessee artists at National Museum of Women in the Arts. Left to right: unknown, Patricia Neal, Al Gore, Tipper Gore, Mary Costa, Patricia Howard. December 3, 1993.

Includes article from Knoxville News-Sentinel about opening.

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Collage of pen-and-ink drawings of buildings in Morristown Crockett Museum 1796 Main Street 1912 Southern Railway Station 1915 East High School City Hall Mill at Panther Springs Peavine Railroad 1890 People’s Grocery Virginia Hotel 1865 Morristown Fairgrounds 1906 Tate Store - Panther Springs 1870

Scope and Contents Entries begin with leaving Knoxville to attend the Columbian Exposition/World’s Fair in Chicago Last entry for her 31st birthday Nov. 15, 1898. Ida Jolly Crawley (1867-1946) was born in Pond Creek, Tennessee. In addition to being an artist, she was also a writer, lecturer, and amateur anthropologist. She founded the Crawley Museum of Art and Archaeology in her home on Park Avenue in Asheville, North Carolina. She studied at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D. C. and in Germany and...

Scope and Contents Wallace Painting: James Wiley Wallace (Tennessee, 1852-1921) oil on canvas pastoral landscape depicting sheep at grazing on a hillside. Signed " J. W. Wallace" and dated "1903" lower right.Biography – James Wiley Wallace played a prominent role in Knoxville's artistic and civic scenes at the turn of the 20th century. He had no fewer than 16 original works exhibited at the 1910 Appalachian Exposition of Fine Art in Knoxville in addition to 7 monotypes. In addition to being an...

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Jan Lynch family photographs Originals of 3 diaries of Betty Lynch transcribed & scanned by Ed White + one diary of her son Jan Lynch Betty Lynch's 1953-54 diary Betty Lynch's 1955-60 diary Betty Lynch's 1963-71 diary Jan Lynch's 1968-71 diary

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Original photographs taken and printed by Jan Lynch

Scope and Contents Newspaper and magazine clippings, documents, exhibition notes, colored photographs biographical material on the artist and his career Book: Roads I’ve Traveled. Videos: Great Smokies 75th Anniversary, Collection of Jim Gray Art; The Light of the World, The Art of Jim Gray; “Renowned American Artist Jim Gray (Knoxville PBS WSJK) Original ink sketches by Jim Gray on Biltmore House brochure and on 8 Knoxville Symphony Orchestra programs from 1985-1987. Photocopies and digital scans about Jim...

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Ten notecards released by the Jim Gray Gallery in Gatlinburg (Tenn.) Images include: “Sunning” “High Autumn Ridges” “Gothic Arches” “Afternoon Light” “Heron in Flight” “High in the Smokies” “Cloud Shadows” “Red Tailed Hawk” “Ridge Light” “I Look to the Hills”

Scope and Contents KNOXVILLE ROCKS: RAGE US (Hand-held) - The Knoxville Scene (A - TENN. LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE B - GUEST - BILL WILLIAMS)01:02:38 Runtime. All Knox-Rage-Us footage is hand-held. Only the left channel has audio. Chroma Artists Association "Knox Rage Us,” February 22, 1992 at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville. Knox Rage Us was a multidisciplinary art show featuring painters, dancers, sculptors, musicians, photographers, performance artists, poets, and graphic...

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"Knoxville, Where Nature and Technology Meet." Joe McChesney, artist. (Printed by?) Reed Advertising. Copyright 1998 Knoxville/Knox County Tourist Commission. Posters received August 10, 2004. (Donor?). 3 copies.

Scope and Contents Laura E. Luttrell Papers, gift of Ella Luttrell. Boxes 1-29 located 3rd floor genealogies. 8+ boxes newspaper clippings & 1-box government projects moved to 3rd floor files. Many other items moved into catalogued collection. 3 folders of family charts moved to oversize family charts: Murphy; McCutchen; and Luttrell & McMillan. Collection includes photographs, CDVs, photograph album, 1-box originals, personal and professional papers, and LEL's research note cards. Also, Mary M....

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Lloyd Branson, painter at easel with self-portrait. B&W 2.5x3.5” + one copy photograph. Lloyd Branson painted the Taylor family at Greenwood in 1873.

Scope and Contents 1. Unsigned pencil sketch of 2-story building with creek in foreground, labeled on back ‘Barn 1933.’ 10 x 9.5” (uneven edges). Small dark stain over roof. 2. Barn with mountain in background, fence posts in foreground. Labeled on back ‘L.E. Jones 1933 Not for Sale 11/15.’ Pencil sketch on Bristol board. Tear on upper edge near center; light staining where framed. 15 x11.” 3. “How Silently” The Great Smoky Mts. LEJ in right corner. Pencil (charcoal?) on paper. 10.5x8.5.” 4. River & rocks....

Scope and Contents Group of three (3) Louis Jones (1878-1958, American/Tennessee) drypoint etchings, depicting landscapes in the Smoky Mountains. Each pencil signed, titled and dated. Titles include: In the Great Smokies/1940, An Old Mountain Bridge/1940 and Little Cabin in the Smokies/1937. Etchings range in size from 4" H x 4 7/8" W to 4 3/8" H x 47/8" W. All housed in a contemporary 3-part frame, 8 1/4" H x 6" W, each frame. Note: Jones was an Impressionist painter from Woodstock, New York and...

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Louis E. Jones glass plate negatives and postcards. Most were made during Jones’ years living in Woodstock, N.Y. The photographs were used to make b&w picture postcards in various series: Kingston N.Y., Ulster, N.Y., Catskills, N.Y., Woodstock, N.Y., and the Great Smoky Mountains. Approximately 40 different postcards.

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One B&W Polaroid copy negative of Louis Edward Jones (L.E. Jones) and wife Emma Bucher Jones. Copied March 2001. One 5 x 7” B&W copy photograph of Louis Edward Jones (L.E. Jones) and wife Emma Bucher Jones. [ca. 1940?]. Mr. Jones came from Kingston, NY and was an artist. He owned the Cliffdwellers shop in Gatlinburg.

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“Mountain Cinderella and Her Prince” Portrait of Lucinda Williams and Fuller Potter (Acme Photo, Cleveland Bureau) 8-10-1936 (A38153)

Scope and Contents The collection is primarily scrapbooks dealing with her life and her family kept by Deas Sinkler Adams Briscoe (Mrs. Russell Briscoe,). She was from Kensington, Md. but her family was from S. C. Deas Adams (1902-1987) met Russell Briscoe (1899-1979) while he served in the military in Washington, D. C., during World War I. The couple were married in 1923. Russell Briscoe worked for J. E. Lutz Insurance eventually serving as executive vice president. He was also active in many civic...

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National Academy of Design first-prize silver medal awarded to Lloyd Branson, 1875. The medal was designed by William Barber, chief engraver of the U.S. Mint, and cast by the U.S. Mint for the National Academy of Design in silver and in bronze. 2 1/2” diameter. Silver was given to the first-prize winner; bronze to the second. In leather case with blue satin lining, Tiffany & Co., New York. (Case is damaged; in two pieces.)

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Color copy photograph of painting, Knoxville Blockhouse by Lloyd Branson.

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Poster of Catherine Wiley’s ‘Summer Day At Newport, 1913.’ Color; 29.5 x 28” 1988. 1 pc.

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Poster advertising Red Grooms art exhibit at the Knoxville Museum of Art, May 3-August 17, 1997. Color. 22 x 28”.

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Journals and drawings by Samuel Bell Palmer during and about his time as a Confederate soldier, later Union prisoner at Camp Douglas, in the Civil War.